[Geoinfo] Re: Invitation to the Session 2-Gondwanides at the 2011 Gondwana 14 meeting in Brazil

[Renata Nela Tomezzoli]

> Estimados colegas: les reenvio la invitación para participar en el "Gondwana 14 meeting", recuerden que en principio, el límite para la presentación de los resúmenes es el próximo sábado.

Saludos.
>
>
> Gondwana 14 meeting which will be held September 25th-30th, 2011, in the
> coastal city of Armação de Búzios in Brazil.
>
> We invite you to the SESSION 2 – GONDWANIDES
>
> Conveners: I. Dalziel (USA), Renata Nela Tomezzoli (Argentina) and
> Maarten de Wit (South Africa);  ian en utig.ig.utexas.edu,
> renata en gl.fcen.uba.ar, Maarten.DeWit en uct.ac.za
>
> The Gondwanide Orogeny: In his classic 1937 book "Our Wandering Continents",
> the South African geologist Alex Du Toit mapped his "Samfrau Geosyncline" from
> the Sierra de La Ventana of Argentina into the Cape Mountains of South Africa
> and through a then unknown part of Antarctica to eastern Australia. He thereby
> used widely separated parts of what we now call the Gondwanide orogen as
> piercing points in reconstructing Gondwanaland and arguing for the hypothesis of
> continental drift. With the aid of marine and satellite geophysics, detailed
> geologic studies and paleomagnetism, we can now accurately trace the
> Gondwanides from South America and Africa through the restored Lafonian and
> Ellsworth-Whitmore microplates to the Pensacola Mountains along the
> Transantarctic Mountains front. There are, however, several outstanding
> questions concerning the orogen, the nature and the cause of the Gondwanide
> orogeny. Does the orogen really extend to eastern Australia? Did all the
> deformation of the Cambrian to Permian succession occur after the deposition of
> Glossopteris-bearing Permian strata, or was there an earlier phase? What was
> the cause of the deformation in an orogen far inboard of the Pacific margin of
> Gondwanaland, at least in South American, Africa and Antarctica?
> The session is planned to bring together workers in every sector of
> this important
> and enigmatic, and now far flung orogen. A Gondwana meeting on the Atlantic
> coast of South America seems an ideal place to convene such a session.
>
>
>
>
>> There are a variety of other great sessions and trips that accompany this
>> session that you might also be interested in - for details see the Gondwana
>> 14 web sitehttp://www.gondwana14.org/index.php .
>>
>> The deadline for abstract submissions is 30th of April 2011.  Registration
>> for the conference and the field trips is now open.
>>
>> According to the website Búzios is: “a cozy and charming resort in the
>> eastern coastal region of Rio de Janeiro State Brazil. Sixteen beautiful
>> beaches compose the sightseeing with amazing outcrops of Cambrian gneisses
>> that register the latest orogeny related to Gondwana amalgamation. In
>> addition, tholeiitic diabase dykes associated with Mesozoic-Cenozoic faults
>> complete the history of Gondwana break up and development of the South
>> Atlantic margins. Mild temperatures and dry weather in the end of September
>> configure the beginning of spring, with flowers and fruits all over”.
>>
>> For details of schedules, registration fees, field trips, and all logistics
>> please seehttp://www.gondwana14.org/index.php . Please follow the procedures
>> for abstract submission, registration and field trip participation as
>> indicated on the website.
>>
>> The scientific committee is chaired by Rudolph
>> Trouw rajtrouw en hotmail.com and Renata Schmitt renatagondwana en uol.com.br.
>>
>> Also, please pass this email on to any colleagues that you think might be
>> interested.
>>
>> Thank you for your attention.
>> Sincerely,
>
> Atentamente.
> --
> Dra. Renata Nela Tomezzoli
> CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires
> Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas
> Instituto de Geofísica "D.A: Valencio"
> Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales.
> Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón II
> (1428) Ciudad de Buenos Aires
> ARGENTINA
> Tel: +5411 4576-3329
> Fax:+5411 4788-3439
> Móvil desde argentina 011 15 62358719
> Móvil desde el exterior +54911 62358719
>



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Dra. Renata Nela Tomezzoli
CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires
Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas
Instituto de Geofísica "D.A: Valencio"
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales.
Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón II
(1428) Ciudad de Buenos Aires
ARGENTINA
Tel: +5411 4576-3329
Fax:+5411 4788-3439
Móvil desde argentina 011 15 62358719
Móvil desde el exterior +54911 62358719

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